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Excess success: Motley Crue and Tiesto launch Vegas residencies

Vince Neil of Motley Crue (photo courtesy of Erik Kabik/erikkabik.com)

This was not a weekend for subtlety. What weekend in Las Vegas isn’t, you ask? Point taken, but this weekend in particular threatened to blow our faces off — figuratively and literally.
On Feb. 3, veteran hair metal band Motley Crue debuted its new “residency” show at [...]

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Updated 6:38 PM, 2/5/12
New show announcements: Coachella spillover and more

Eddie Vedder

A slew of new show announcements flooded our inbox today, half of them being what will hopefully be the beginning of concerts scheduled around April’s two-weekend Coachella festival in mid-April.
Florence and the Machine is the third Coachella act to get a headlining show at the Boulevard Pool at the Cosmopolitan. Her April 21 [...]

Updated 12:08 PM, 1/23/12
Awesome cartoon exhibit opens in Vegas

Photo by Mike Prevatt

Who among us didn’t grow up watching Bugs Bunny and his fellow Looney Tunes every Saturday morning, getting the weekend off to a great start and delighting in the sort of subversive hijinks and mischief Disney never had the nerve to express itself? We owe a debt to animator/director Chuck Jones, who [...]

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Updated 1:29 PM, 1/19/12
Various Thigs & Stuff
Out with the old, in with the new

Today marks a big change in the blog world, readers: We are closing down Various Things & Stuff and starting up an all-new blog, called SlashPolitics.com.
Don’t fret: You’ll still get all the blogging you’ve come to expect from us at Various Things & Stuff, although we will be losing the royal “we,” along with the [...]

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Updated 11:30 AM, 1/11/10
‘The Response’ gets nod for Oscar vote

The Response, a short film about a panel of military judges weighing the guilt or innocence of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, has been selected as one of 10 short films to advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. We featured this riveting movie in CityLife back in October, shortly after it [...]

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Updated 10:38 AM, 1/10/10
Las Vegas monorail: ‘A mess’

The Las Vegas monorail has consistently disappointed when it comes to meeting its revenue and ridership projections.
The Las Vegas monorail is “a mess” in terms of its flagging ability to repay its debts. It seems overly optimistic ridership and revenue projections are the culprit, but there’s a lot more detail in this story by Dan [...]

Updated 10:23 AM, 1/10/10